In this five-minute podcast, Dr Richard Helmer talks about a shirt that lets the user play real music on an air guitar.
In a project intended to demonstrate the potential of technical textiles, a team at CSIRO Textiles & Fibre Technology, led by Research Engineer Dr Richard Helmer, created an objectless musical instrument, or 'air guitar'.
It works by embedding sensors into a shirt, allowing a computer to recognising and interpreting arm movements and produce the sounds of the instrument.
In this podcast, Dr Helmer talks about how the air guitar shirt works and how the same technology could be used for:
Find out more about It's not rocket science... it's rockin' science.
Sign up for more episodes of CSIROpod
